Re: Cosmetic JFFS patch.

[Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>]

Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote:
> 
> In article <20010628131641.5e10ecca.reynolds@redhat.com>,
> Tommy Reynolds  <reynolds@redhat.com> wrote:
> >Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com> was pleased to say:
> >
> >> If they are shut off, then where's the drumming? Because if people start
> >> making copyright printk's normal, I will make "quiet" the default.
> >
> >Amen.  This is like editing a program to remove the "harmless" compiler warning
> >messages.  If I don't get a useless message, I don't have to decide to ignore
> >it.  Describing what's happening is OK; don't gush.
> 
> Yep - a driver should print out that it loaded and what hardware it
> found. Nothing else.
> 
> You know what I hate? Debugging stuff like BIOS-e820, zone messages,
> dentry|buffer|page-cache hash table entries, CPU: Before vendor init,
> CPU: After vendor init, etc etc, PCI: Probing PCI hardware,
> ip_conntrack (256 buckets, 2048 max), the complete APIC tables, etc
> 
> That's stuff that noone cares about. If the system fails to boot
> boot it with a debug flag. If it does boot, _fine_.

Actually this [IMHO] a bug that should be fixed in 2.4:  The default
logging level for the production 2.4 kernel includes KERN_DEBUG, which
is why you see a lot of this crap.

> arch/i386/kernel/setup.c:       printk(KERN_DEBUG "CPU:             Common caps: %08x %08x %08x %08x\n",

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